Georgia sues Biden administration to extend Medicaid program with work requirement

Gov. Brian Kemp speaks before signing HB 30 during a ceremony on Wednesday, January 31, 2024 at the Capitol. (Matthew Pearson/WABE)

Georgia sued the Biden administration Friday to try to keep the state’s new health plan for low-income residents, which is the only Medicaid program in the country with a work requirement, running until 2028.

Georgia Pathways launched in July and is set to expire at the end of September 2025.

The suit filed in U.S. District Court in Brunswick, Georgia, says the Biden administration’s decision to revoke the work requirement and another aspect of Pathways delayed implementation of the program. That reduced the originally approved five-year term of the program to just over two years.